A rescue package has saved Cistercian College Roscrea just one month after it was announced that it was to close due to a dramatic fall off in student numbers.
Dure to intense fundraising undertaken by the CCR Action Group, formed by parents and past pupils, in excess of €1.5million has been raised to save the well-known boys’ boarding school at Mount St Joseph Abbey.
“We have witnessed a small miracle over the past four weeks,” said Dom Richard Purcell, Abbot of Mount St Joseph Abbey. “The decision to close was an extremely difficult one for the monastic community to make and so we are understandably overjoyed to now be in a position to announce that the college will remain open.”